"The Other Swedes"
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Lindsborg Swedes, Their Neighbors & Friends ~
<> Celebrating the Augustana Synod Legacy <>
~ Celebrating Them ~
~ The Lindsborg Swedes, Their Neighbors & Friends ~
<> Celebrating the Augustana Synod Legacy <>
Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson
~ Remembering Swedish Lutheran Christian Founder of Lindsborg and of Bethany Lutheran Church
~ LINKS to accounts by Rev. Bror Carlsson, Mr. Alf Brorson, and Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson
(1841-1900)
He was a Swedish Augustana Lutheran Christian
Courtesy of McPherson County Old Mill Museum
This section is a "placeholder" for Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson as information about him is elsewhere in SWEDES. Go to the LINKS below.
From Dr. Emory K. Lindquist's 1953 "Smoky Valley People, A History of Lindsborg, Kansas:"
Go HERE to Swedish Pastor Olof Olsson Emigrating to Lindsborg 1869, June 27th Arrival
~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
Go HERE to Pastor Olsson, Founder of Lindsborg's Bethany Lutheran Church, 1869 - 1876
~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
From Rev. Bror Carlsson's manuscript on the life of Rev. Olof Olsson of 1955 converted to a condense 2001 version by his son, Mr. Alf Brorson:
Go HERE to Rev. Bror Carlsson's 1955, 350-page manuscript "Jag Sökte Icke," "I Did Not Seek My Own"
~ Tracing Lindsborg's Spiritual Founder Rev. Olof Olsson's life in Sweden and America
with the 1860 Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod.
Go HERE to 2001 "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson" ~ Alf Brorson's English condensed version of his father's, Rev. Bror Carlsson's, 1955 manuscript, "Jag Sökte Icke Mitt," "I Did Not Seek My Own."
Go HERE to "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson" ~ Contents & Illustrations.
Go HERE to "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson" ~ Transcriptions of "Translator's Foreword" "Foreword" "Acknowledgements" "Postscript."
Go HERE to Swedish Pastor Olof Olsson Emigrating to Lindsborg 1869, June 27th Arrival
~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
Go HERE to Pastor Olsson, Founder of Lindsborg's Bethany Lutheran Church, 1869 - 1876
~ An account by Dr. Emory K. Lindquist
From Rev. Bror Carlsson's manuscript on the life of Rev. Olof Olsson of 1955 converted to a condense 2001 version by his son, Mr. Alf Brorson:
Go HERE to Rev. Bror Carlsson's 1955, 350-page manuscript "Jag Sökte Icke," "I Did Not Seek My Own"
~ Tracing Lindsborg's Spiritual Founder Rev. Olof Olsson's life in Sweden and America
with the 1860 Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod.
Go HERE to 2001 "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson" ~ Alf Brorson's English condensed version of his father's, Rev. Bror Carlsson's, 1955 manuscript, "Jag Sökte Icke Mitt," "I Did Not Seek My Own."
Go HERE to "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson" ~ Contents & Illustrations.
Go HERE to "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson" ~ Transcriptions of "Translator's Foreword" "Foreword" "Acknowledgements" "Postscript."
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The Rev. Olof Olsson's home in Moline, Illinois, 2021
Courtesy of Rev. Daniel Witkowski of First Lutheran Church, originally Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church
Courtesy of Rev. Daniel Witkowski of First Lutheran Church, originally Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church
Graves of Rev. Olof Olsson and his wife Anna's at the Moline, Illinois, Riverside Cemetery,
4 miles east from Augustana College and Theological Seminary in Rock Island, Illinois,
where Pastor Olsson was the College's third president.
Mississippi River and Davenport, Iowa, in the distance.
Source: 2010 photograph by Fran Cochran
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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"Let Us Celebrate Them"
* * *
Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
* * *
All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
as indicated on main menu sections of
www.swedesthewaytheywere.org. All rights reserved.
